Help with Hard Drive recoginition problem

[Joe Forster/STA]

For recovering deleted files or recovering data on deleted/damaged partitions, you may want to try Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro. I never had the need to use it on my own hard disks, though. Also, when the partition table of a friend of mine got messed up, Linux's fsck.vfat did miracles on it!

[PerfectPractice]

I have used Partion Magic at work and it works exactly as its suppose to...I have repartioned with data on the drive many times and not lost a thing...But there are rare ocassions in which bad things have happened soooo....

[Creedman]

Hey...

If those two 200GB's were compressed, and you were using XP, then when you reinstalled XP, you might loose your partition information on them... happend to me. As for your two hard drives not being recognized by windows, eg... no drive letter in "My Computer", you can right click on My Computer, click Manage... then click on Disk Management on the left pane... in the right pane, a panel will appear... scroll down on the BOTTOM pane and find the two drives... right click, and click Change Drive Letter, but you probably will have to repartition them first... so do this AFTER you get your data off them... I used GetDataBack for NTFS, which is probably what you will need, assuming you formated your two 200GB's with NTFS.

Hope this helps!